Quote Discussion, Current quote: “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
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Simple enough. Everyone views the grass on the other side of the fence as greener. So, you’re less interested in what is right under your nose and easily obtainable, but much more interested in pursuing that which is hard to obtain, even if it turns out to be no beetter (or worse) than what was right under your nose all the time.

Play ‘hard to get’ and you’ll increase interest from other parties, parties who might not be so interested if you were ‘easy’.

however, you don’t need to make converts if you just wait for all the hypocrites to die out, and the newly from infancy indoctrinated generation to replace them. that’s how Christianity and Islam spread.

@OD
I partially agree with you, however, Muslims are told to wage war on anyone who does not accept allah as the one true god. Christians are told to love everyone, even those who persecute them. This method is more effective in gaining true converts because they are not putting the penalty of death or imprisonment in front of them. Rather, they are showing Christ’s love for everyone through them.

The new quote isn’t true in many instances. For example, there are many Catholics who are Hispanic and/or Spanish as a result of the Spanish Inquisition and Franco’s fascist policies regarding religion. This is also true in Italy under Mussolini. It converted the people—especially natives of the Americas—into Catholics as a result of force. In many of those countries today Catholicism is staunchly followed and is the major faction of Christianity followed in those countries.

I’ll take it literally.“Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.”
The quote says “never.”
If one human was converted by force, then the quote is incorrect.
Based on how many humans there are, it is unlikely that this instance has never occurred.
Therefore it is incorrect.

@OD
I partially agree with you, however, Muslims are told to wage war on anyone who does not accept allah as the one true god. Christians are told to love everyone, even those who persecute them. This method is more effective in gaining true converts because they are not putting the penalty of death or imprisonment in front of them. Rather, they are showing Christ’s love for everyone through them.

i’m sorry, but that’s far more igorance than i can tolerate. many of the “teachings of Jesus” were contradictive. he did say he came not to bring peace but to bring a sword. he only told people to love your enemy because God will punish them, but his words (God’s words that Jesus commanded you to follow) still spew poison.

adn regardless of any debate on such “teachings”, Christianity very clearly was spread through war, violence, hangings and burnings.

It depends upon the prison system. If you’re in a private prison in the United States, or Guantanamo Bay, then there is no way you shall be rehabilitated. If you’re in a prison in Sweden, then it is likely for you to be rehabilitated as a result of their methods in imprisonment.

It depends upon the prison system. If you’re in a private prison in the United States, or Guantanamo Bay, then there is no way you shall be rehabilitated. If you’re in a prison in Sweden, then it is likely for you to be rehabilitated as a result of their methods in imprisonment.

I’ll take it literally again.
Let’s say you can bench press 500 pounds. If given 10 pounds to bench press, you would not struggle whatsoever.
So at that moment in time, you have strength yet you have not struggled.
Therefore false.

After having doing wrestling, football, swimming team, lifting, military service, and other physically demanding activities, I feel like this quote ties all of the previous activities together.

In wrestling, if your opponent does not struggle to stand up, does not struggle to fight back, there is no strength both mentally and physically. If you do not push yourself to fight your opponent every step of the way, you show no strength for yourself or for your team.

In swimming, if there is no struggle to achieve your quickest time, each and every time, then there is no strength. You should always fight to be the first, it’s not all about muscle in each case.

When you are lifting, if you have given yourself a plan to do every day, and do not struggle with that plan, then there is no strength. You may finish it every day, but what is to be gained from not pushing your body?

In the military, one who does not struggle to fight for their lives, to make people safer, to get their job done has no strength.

Everything this quote applies to seems to deal with one’s own leadership.

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